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Brexit has returned to the headlines lately, as Britain has started to negotiate the terms of its exit with its European counterparts. On the one hand, Britain is trying to maintain as many privileges as possible. On the other hand, Europeans are trying to punish the "black sheep" in order to set the example for the other EU members, which may consider heading for the exits in the near future. While the potential consequences of Brexit on the UK have been widely analyzed, I have not seen any analysis on its impact on the EU countries. This impact is likely to be greater, particularly on the small countries, than the impact on the UK.
First of all, while some pundits predict that Brexit will be catastrophic for the UK, the truth is that the UK has very little to be afraid of. The UK has always had its own currency, had a great economy before it joined the EU and will most likely maintain its great shape even after its separation. Even better, it will get rid of the exhaustive bureaucracy of EU and will be able to restore a more competitive and flexible business environment for its corporations. I have analyzed the benefits of Brexit for UK in a previous article.
While some sectors in the UK will be adversely affected by Brexit, others will markedly benefit and the overall effect on the whole economy is likely to be limited. As most people become very emotional when they analyze the impact of Brexit, it is much more reliable to take a look at the UK stock market, which has rallied 10% after the referendum. This certainly bodes well for the UK. Nevertheless, while the UK is likely to experience a positive or neutral overall effect from Brexit, some European countries are likely to experience a much stronger effect due to their size.
Due to the pronounced weakening of the British pound, which has depreciated by about 15% since Brexit, UK citizens will find it increasingly expensive to travel to foreign countries. Therefore, they are likely to limit the amounts they spend for traveling abroad. While this may not seem as a major effect, it may significantly hurt some European countries, particularly the small ones, such as Greece, which largely relies on its tourism in order to pay for its expenses.
To be sure, tourism accounts for about 20% of the Greek GDP. In addition, UK visitors in Greece increased 14% last year, from 2.1 M to 2.4 M, and accounted for 15% of the total revenues of the country from tourism. Consequently, as the weak pound is likely to reduce the number of UK visitors in Greece, the latter is likely to experience a meaningful hit in its revenues. The same impact will be felt in other tourist destinations, such as Italy and Spain, though it will be somewhat less severe, as these are larger countries, less dependent on tourism.
On the other hand, the UK concentrates hundreds of thousands of students from all the EU countries. This has been a reliable incoming cash flow stream for the country, as foreign students spend enormous amounts, not only on tuition, but also on their living expenses. Actually many students borrow extreme amounts in order to pay for their studying years in the UK.
However, the tuition fees are likely to greatly increase in the aftermath of Brexit, even for European students. This is likely to significantly reduce the number of foreign students that choose the UK for their studies. While the tuition fees have not increased yet, the current expectations have already scared many future students away from the UK, as they are afraid their tuition fees will skyrocket in the middle of their studies, in about two years, when Brexit materializes.
The UK has been a major trading counterpart for most EU countries. More specifically, thanks to its remarkably strong currency in all the recent years, UK has been a major importer of goods from most EU countries. This is clearly depicted in the chart below, which shows that the imports of UK have exceeded its exports every single year in the last decade.
However, the plunge of the British pound in the aftermath of the referendum has rendered foreign goods much more expensive to the UK citizens than they used to be. Therefore, Brexit is likely to limit the amount of goods that are imported in the UK while it will also increase the UK exports, as they are now cheaper to the other countries than they used to be. All in all, the EU countries will have a negative impact in their trading surplus with the UK, as their imports will increase and their exports will decrease.
Finally, the EU countries will miss the huge contribution of the UK to the EU budget every year. More specifically, the UK contributed 16.6 B euros in the total budget of 142 B euros of the EU in 2015. Thus the UK made up 12% of the EU budget last year. When Brexit materializes, this significant contribution will be lost and hence the EU countries will have to raise their own contributions accordingly.
To sum up, while most analysts have been discussing the effect of Brexit on the UK, they should realize that the effect will probably be much greater on some EU countries, particularly the smallest and most vulnerable ones. Thanks to its weakening currency, the UK will enjoy a significant improvement in its trading balance, as its imports will decrease and its exports will decrease, while its European counterparts will experience the opposite. Moreover, the latter will miss the great contribution of the UK to the EU budget and thus they will miss a meaningful external boost in their economies. Of course this does not mean that the EU will suffer as a result of Brexit. It only means that some EU countries, particularly the smallest and most vulnerable ones, may incur a significant drag in their economies due to Brexit.
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ST. LOUIS — St. Louis must have been good this year. There will be twice the cheer this Christmas season with two holiday pop-up bars in the city.
Miracle STL will be back at its normal location at 2800 Indiana Ave. in the Benton Park neighborhood.
This year, there will be a second holiday pop-up bar, called Sippin’ Santa, at 3146 Locust in the Midtown neighborhood. Sippin’ Santa will be a tiki-themed Christmas bar.
Reservations will be available for both locations online at tocktix.com beginning at noon on Nov. 1.
Because these bars are so popular, there are time limits on reservations:
- 2 people: 1 hour
- 3-4 people: 1:15 hours
- 5-6 people: 1:30 hours
- 7-8 people: 2:00 hours
Walk-ins will be welcome in the bar area, while the tables are saved for reservations. The bars will be open from Monday, Nov. 25 - Saturday, Dec. 28.
Miracle STL and Sippin' Santa specialize in serving up holiday-themed cocktails in some of the most Instagram-worthy, festive environments you can imagine. There are Christmas trees, lights, music and decorations in every corner of the bar from floor to ceiling.

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The broking industry has come a long way over the past decade. Establishing a strong referral network has traditionally been the go-to for brokers to drive new business and generate traction. As the industry becomes more and more digital, however, establishing an online presence has become just as important. MPA spoke with 2018 Young Gun Jonathan Preston from Home Loan Experts for his top tips on digital marketing and why he started his own podcast.
The power of Google and online reviews.
While most people would say referrals are the best way to bring in new business, Preston says the digital world offers plenty of potential.
“Our big thing is online presence in terms of SEO.”
“That’s what generates the vast majority of our leads.”
He adds that online reviews have also become increasingly important over the past few years; something that many brokers are not yet focused on.
“That really seems to resonate with people, to be able to look up reviews about you and about your company online.”
“People love that, but not enough brokers are doing that at the moment.”
While many brokers may be nervous about asking their clients to write reviews, Preston says it should be the opposite. Instead, they should be nervous that they will get one bad review from a customer without having any good ones to mitigate against the effects of this.
“If one person leaves one bad review and they don’t have any good ones in there, then that looks terrible for them.”
Having plenty of good reviews online, however, creates a better impression for the client – even if there are one or two bad ones thrown into the mix.
The future of lead generation.
When it comes to posting on social media, Preston believes Facebook is the best space to focus on.
“A large portion of the developed world are on Facebook now.”
“People check Facebook very regularly, it covers all age groups effectively and people are open to almost any kind of content.”
He adds that the platform could well offer the strongest lead generation at the lowest cost as we move into the future.
Email send-outs are another effective way of reaching a large audience, and have the potential to keep you top of the client’s mind until they are ready to take action.
“Emails are an interesting thing because they reach a lot more people than you hear back from.”
He says you may send out an email to 100 people and find that only one or two get back to you, but there could be another 10 or 20 waiting in the wings who will contact you at a later date.
The power of podcasts.
A few years ago, Preston started his own podcast aimed at savvy investors and people who wanted to build property portfolios. Inspired by a business podcast he used to watch, he found that there were not too many people covering property in an in-depth, technical way.
“What I wanted to aim for was the edgier out of the box teaching.”
He started out doing five episodes a week for the first couple of years.
“It actually took a long time to get traction. I believe I did 200 episodes before a single client contacted me.”
He says, while it has helped to create more authority in his brand as a broker, it hasn’t been the most direct path to generating new leads.
“It’s more useful in terms of giving customers comfort in dealing with you, as opposed to actually generating leads.”
It has also connected him with a good network of likeminded individuals and investors, including some more sophisticated clientele looking for creative solutions.


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Talk of a more potent Range Rover Evoque from Land Rover dates back several years, but even with the vehicle having just undergone its mid-cycle update we’re still without a version offering any serious performance upgrades. However, with the recent establishment of the Special Vehicle Operations, an Evoque wearing the personalization department’s new SVR performance badge could now be in the works.
The information was first reported by Motoring, citing comments made by Land Rover design director Gerry McGovern.
"We started with this [Range Rover Sport SVR] but it'll work right through the Range Rover range, and through Discoverys and eventually Defenders,” McGovern said when asked about the possibility of more SVR-badged Land Rovers beyond the current Range Rover Sport SVR.
And any vehicle wearing the SVR badge will pack more power, McGovern promised.
So what can we expect from an Evoque SVR? A previous report suggested that any performance version of the Evoque would feature the automaker's supercharged 3.0-liter V-6. The engine currently has outputs of 340 and 380 horsepower, and either of these would be more than enough for the Evoque SVR. A key rival would be Mercedes-Benz’s GLA45 AMG, rated at 355 hp.
So when might we see an Evoque SVR? McGovern didn’t say, but it can’t be too far as the Land Rover design chief said the current Evoque only has about three years left in its life cycle.


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When Toyota first launched the iQ earlier this year, it knew the project would help shape the future of the small car market. So it’s exciting news indeed to hear that Aston Martin is interested in expanding on the car’s design to create the Cygnet.
The Aston Martin Cygnet will be a luxury commuter car strongly based on the Toyota iQ. Released in 2010 across Europe, it will be exclusively built for and sold to Aston Martin owners, and currently there are no plans to extend to other countries.
We took a shine to iQ back in January, when we drove it for 500 miles on one tank of fuel, but it seems that we’re not the only ones. Aston Martin chief executive Dr Ulrich Bez said that the Cygnet project was “made possible with the support of an organisation of Toyota’s stature and capability and the intelligent design and perfect city car package of the iQ”.
Tadashi Arashima, Toyota Europe’s CEO and president said the collaboration represented “a natural pairing of strategies: a small yet spacious package, perfect for the city driver, finished off with Aston Martin’s iconic design language.
“The Cygnet is a good choice for the Aston Martin owner looking for that second or third car, which is luxurious and eco-conscious,” he added.
We’re looking forward to finding out more about the Cygnet, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted on its progress!


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A high voltage campaign since demonetisation has ensured Paytm is the brand with most mindshare among wallet companies.
A study by Assocham-PwC notes a surge of about 350% in cybercrime cases registered under the IT Act, 2000 between 2011 and 2014.
Sharma said in the mail: “Our admin team is working to get air purifiers and more plants to avoid pollution and clean air in office."
At Paytm, the conference room in its Noida head office had 30 engineers constantly monitor a live dashboard and their smartphones for specific updates.
Only a year ago, Kunal Bahl, CEO, Snapdeal boasted that his e-commerce startup will overtake Flipkart in sales. The company has since slipped against its two main rivals.What went wrong?
The angel investor community in India is small. India’s angel network is about 200 people compared to more than 5,000 in the US.
Executives of the world’s largest retailer also held meetings with Snapdeal and logistics companies during their trip as part of an exercise.
The two traditional business houses have finally taken their businesses online but they will have to vie with more than 1,000 startups for customers.
Luxury market in Indian is $35 billion market today and is growing at the rate of 30% per year. Indian consumers are spending $85 million on international online websites for shopping.
The Indian apparel and fashion market is worth around $150 billion and online retailers have merely scratched the surface.
Orders on the portals Dhora sells, such as Amazon and Flipkart, have dried up. Not long ago, Dhora used to ship 60-70 packets a day.
In recent years, fashion e-tailer Jabong has been diligently collecting data about consumers visiting its website. It is a common practice among marketplaces.
Algorithms are responsible for customers browsing for goods being greeted with shopping recommendations. It decide what to display for online marketplaces.
Uber claimed that Ola created 93,000 false accounts to book its cabs and then cancelled all, resulting in loss of business and 23,000 drivers abandoning its platform.
If a product is damaged, the courier company bears the cost, if it’s useless on arrival (a smartphone not working), the seller bears the cost.
To woo customers, they resorted to offering deep discounts. If they don’t, they risk losing customers reaching out to restaurants directly.
Sales of iPhone declined for the first time in fourth quarter of 2015, even as global smartphone sales exhibited slowest growth since 2008.
More users and lesser discounts? A look at what 2016 holds for Indian ecommerce firms like Flipkart and Snapdeal
More users on board and era of discounts nearing end… Shelley Singh looks at the year ahead for the booming ecommerce sector.
The headquarters of Paytm, India’s largest mobile payment and commerce platform, is located in Noida, but the lifeblood of the company is far, far away.
Few sectors in India in recent months have witnessed the kind of heavy-duty action and the inevitable, accompanying, hype as ecommerce.


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Ball Corporation has released its Climate Transition Plan in its bid to “better serve its stakeholders and deliver solutions that benefit the planet.”
According to the study, 66% of Ball’s packaging is created from recycled materials, an increase of three per cent over the previous year. Products created in North America and Central America collectively include 64% recycled material. Its products have 62% recycled content in the European, Middle Eastern, and African region. In South America, recycled materials are used in the production of 76% of items.
Additionally, Ball Corporation generated 87% ($13.37bn) of its revenue from the sale of products that are manufactured with recycled materials. More than 108 billion aluminium beverage cans were shipped worldwide in 2022.
Ball claims the Climate Transition Plan offers a “transparent, robust, and science-based decarbonisation plan.” The plan is inspired by the latest UN guidelines and their call for corporations to ground net-zero commitments in real emissions cuts.
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The Climate Transition Plan includes three technically and economically realistic scenarios that consider some degree of uncertainty and the possibility of change along the way, with an emphasis on significant emissions reductions by 2030 and further milestones by 2050 or sooner:
- Critical emission reductions by 2030 and additional milestones by 2050 or earlier
- A 55% reduction in GHG emissions by 2030, in line with the 1.5C target
- A call to action for governments and industry to match policy developments
Ball Corporation chief sustainability officer Ramon Arratia said the Climate Transition Plan would help its customers achieve their scope three emissions targets and that collaboration between the company, its customers and suppliers would be needed to enable joint policy advocacy for high circularity.
Arratia added: “The fight to keep the 1.5° limit alive will be won or lost in this decade; Ball’s focus has been on achieving 55% reductions by 2030 with existing commercial technologies and applying best practice policies.”
The report details how Ball is aligning its commitments with action, which includes its leading efforts to mobilise the industry’s value chain as a founding member of the World Economic Forum’s First Movers Coalition and advocating for policies that will accelerate decarbonisation.
Ball Corporation president and chief executive Dan Fisher said: “The details shared in our 2022 combined report and Climate Transition Plan demonstrate our commitment to driving innovation and operational excellence across our global aluminium packaging and aerospace businesses. With sustainability as our continued focus, we have a bright future ahead.”


text: A 12-year-old's lemonade stand business just got another big break. Jack's Stands and Marketplaces is teaming up with Good Times restaurants to sell his lemonade for a limited time. The fast food company's president and CEO, Boyd Hoback, said it's a profitable partnership. Jack Bonneau started Jack's Stands in 2014 and has expanded to multiple locations along the Front Range, managed by other kids that Bonneau hires. He appeared on the ABC show "Shark Tank" in 2016.


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Despite banks’ ongoing focus on mobile, people aren’t signing up.
The implication is that mobile banking is close to peak adoption, and that banks will have to work hard to overcome consumer resistance.
Research indicates that by far the two biggest reasons for non-usage are concerns about security and preference for using other channels.
GlobalData’s annual retail banking survey shows that 11 percent of global online consumers accessed their bank via their mobile device, a proportion that is no higher than in 2013/14.
Although branch traffic is falling, branches still play a huge role in customers signing up, and that — contrary to expectations — younger customers are heavier users of this channel than older consumers in some places.
Could artificial intelligence (AI) spur adoption?
This year will see significant growth in the number of AI-powered banking chatbots, often through the likes of Facebook Messenger and Amazon Echo.
Banks will be able to go where their customers are, rather than vice-versa.
They will be able to embed themselves into their customers’ lives, and, using AI, deliver high quality insights that anticipate users’ needs even before they have been clearly articulated.
While the traditional mobile banking app may be reaching the limits of its usefulness, chatbots could revitalise it.


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The Xbox One has been on the market for a couple of months now and gamers are getting anxious for new titles to play. While we are aware of some that are on the way, today it seems we’ll be learning of one more.
Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Studios, posted a tweet stating “personally going to be a good day tomorrow, looking forward to a games announce coming early in the morning, fun part of the job”. That on its own is rather cryptic, but it can be pieced together with another separate tweet to perhaps get a bit of an idea.
Scottish game studio Ruffian tweeted that “feels like a good day for announcements doesn’t it?” That combined with a Crackdown appearance on the screen during the Xbox One reveal event leads to speculation about what is coming.
It is, however, just that – speculation. Thankfully, this time around, the guessing game will be short lived, as we’ll be finding out before the sun sets on this day.
Update: Microsoft announced the acquisition of the ‘Gears of War’ franchise from Epic Games. Was this the big announcement scheduled for today? We’ll have to wait and see what else happens.


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Tonn Ostergard wants all those people shopping in Walmarts, Costcos and grocery stores to know one thing.
"If somebody bought it, a truck brought it," said Ostergard, CEO and chairman of Lincoln's Crete Carrier Corp.
And those trucks are bringing a lot more than they have in a long time as people pack grocery, big-box and warehouse stores to buy everything from milk to toilet paper to cleaning supplies.
Ostergard said that because Crete Carrier is so big, it doesn't have a lot of extra capacity. With an average of 11.5 million miles driven each week, he said, a 1-2% jump in a week would be a "significant volume increase."
But last week, he said, miles driven were up 6% compared with a year ago.
"We have been extremely busy," he said.
Crete Carrier isn't the only company seeing an increase in business.
DAT Solutions, a company that operates the largest load board in the trucking industry, reported that volumes were up nearly across the board in the week ending March 22, compared with the previous week.
Werner Enterprises, a publicly traded trucking company based in Omaha, said last week that it has seen increased demand in the second half of March on both dedicated and one-way routes.
On its dedicated routes, Werner said 60% of its business is retail, most of that from dollar stores. Demand on those routes has remained steady "with some above-normal demand for store replenishment" this month.
"This is primarily due to customer inventory restocking following consumers buying essential items for their homes," Werner said in a business update presentation it gave Thursday.
Not all trucking companies are having success, especially those that focus on hauling heavy machinery such as auto parts. But for those delivering food and other products that are in demand right now, business is hectic.
Justin Mann of Gothenburg, who drives a grain truck, said he is not necessarily more busy right now, but he is seeing more urgency.
"Everybody, they want it now; they're afraid they're going to run out of feed, or they're afraid you're not going to get back," Mann said.
He said one of the biggest challenges is that he has to call ahead to grain elevators to make sure they are open because some are shutting down.
Kent Grisham, president and CEO of the Nebraska Trucking Association, said that his group's members are comparing the current demand for goods to what occurs during the peak holiday shopping season, except that, "it's much higher volumes than that right now."
Ostergard knows that won't last forever, and he expects demand to even out and possibly even contract a bit over the next few months. But, for now, Crete Carrier and its drivers are "trying to make the best of the situation."
For drivers, who Ostergard said already have a tough work life, things have gotten tougher.
Many of them have to go to places with large COVID-19 outbreaks, such as New York. They also face hardships, such as truck stops and even rest stops being closed.
On Tuesday, officials from the Nebraska Trucking Association showed their appreciation for truckers by hosting a free lunch at Shoemaker's Truck Stop in Lincoln.
Grisham said the free lunch offer is one small way to show truck drivers how much they are appreciated.
Ordinary people can also do their part to show appreciation to truck drivers during this tough time, too, he said.
It can be as simple as a wave on the highway or something more involved like offering to get a driver food at a drive-thru window.
"Those kinds of gestures make a huge difference in the life of a professional driver," Grisham said.
Reach the writer at 402-473-2647 or email@example.com.
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The launch makes SupplyCompass a first of its kind platform, enabling fashion brands and manufacturers to build strong partnerships and work together as one team—collaborating more effectively, bringing collections to market faster and producing better quality products. Fashion brands can also still tap into a vetted manufacturer network when they need new manufacturing partners.
"The pressure on fashion brands today is greater than ever to deliver fresh, high quality, sustainably made products fast, at an affordable price. Delivering on all of these can be challenging, with too much time often spent managing orders, a lack of control and visibility on orders, fragmented comms and information sharing and inconsistent product quality – all whilst facing resource pressures and a need for faster lead-times to launch new products," said Flora Davidson, head of Product and co-founder of SupplyCompass.
“To manage their fashion production, most fashion brands are still using a mix of Excel, email, WhatsApp and legacy PLM systems. Many of these are either not designed for the complex needs of fashion production, or they are outdated, clunky to use and don’t facilitate effective cross-organisation work. Add to the mix COVID-19’s long-lasting impacts on global supply chains plus distributed teams, and 2020 demonstrated that fashion businesses can no longer afford to work in the old way. Supply chains need to become reactive, agile and efficient to survive," Davidson added.
SupplyCompass' Production Platform is a new type of fashion software that enables brands to develop products and manage their production process, with their manufacturers, all in a single place. From sharing inspiration in moodboards, standardising and better visualising tech packs, comparing and tracking costing, building digital libraries, to developing greater feedback traceability, with SupplyCompass, brands reduce uncertainty and gain greater control, saving time and costs (up to 70 per cent less time spent managing production).
The product update means fashion businesses can now invite and onboard their own factories and suppliers onto the platform, allowing them to better collaborate on and manage the extensive production process and giving them the ability to manage their whole supply chain network via a single source of truth. While brands can still gain instant access to new trusted and vetted manufacturers through SupplyCompass should they need, the ability to bring on board brands’ existing factories now makes it possible for brands to use the platform across all orders and their entire supply chain business.
The result is, through SupplyCompass, brands can design better products, bring collections to market 50 per cent faster with increased sample hit rate and less stress and uncertainty, as well as focus on building stronger supply chain relationships. With standardisation across countries, languages and varying levels of expertise, teams will be empowered to spend less time managing production, and more time creating value elsewhere in the business.
With the new SupplyCompass chat feature, brands can now: upload heavy files directly into the chat, with no restrictions on file size like emails; have team chats unrelated to projects, whilst having a tool that encourages users to link conversations to a project, so all conversations about that order happen together; communicate in real-time with their factories, with the key difference being that all conversations relating to each order are saved in one single thread, and with all the relevant team members from both brand and manufacturer having visibility; and share videos, embed links, and use emojis - to bring personality and humanness to messaging, nurturing the partner relationship.
"This is our most exciting product update yet – one that has been four years in the making. Ever since our two-year stint in India, we’ve seen first-hand the problems facing the fashion industry, but 2020 just skyrocketed these. As we’re in a unique position at SupplyCompass — bridging the gap between brands and manufacturers — we knew we had to act fast and provide better software for fashion production. This meant opening our platform up for brands to bring on board their own factories, facilitating collaboration and strengthening existing partnerships," said SupplyCompass CEO & co-founder Gus Bartholomew.
"Ultimately we believe now is the time for brands to recognise manufacturers as part of their business. And this is why we also developed our chat feature, which brings brands and factories closer together, to produce better. Historical chat tools have allowed too much freedom for new channels and threads for something like production, which needs structured communication if it’s to truly work. We’re hugely excited to roll-out our new features, which will help brands launch categories faster, design for sustainability, gain visibility, spend less time stressed about production, and reduce uncertainty," he added.
“After dealing with factories for a few years where we faced constant issues with lead times, quality, corner-cutting and a lack of transparency, SupplyCompass have provided a massive breath of fresh air. The platform makes creating products easier than I could have possibly ever imagined a few years ago,” said Giles Campbell Longley, founder of parkour and streetwear brand The Motus Projects.
“Having production information and communication all in one place saves me and my team a lot of time, and really helps reduce the amount of communication back and forth. It has helped us to improve quality and just generally make our service better. Plus, it’s super quick and easy to learn—I love it!" said Jambu, owner of a GOTS certified jersey factory in India.
When it comes to sustainability, SupplyCompass has found many businesses struggling to gather fast, reliable, detailed data on their supply chains. For teams using the platform, SupplyCompass provides a digital core to production, meaning brands can start to gather critical product, supply chain and order data from across their organisation - in a few clicks.
"Our long-term vision is for SupplyCompass to facilitate impact scoring, to support teams to build sustainability metrics into the process from the get-go. In addition, with all brands’ manufacturers and suppliers working from one single system, it will better allow traceability to be baked into supply chains. The future has to be circular, and the success will depend on elegant systems that make this easy for brands and suppliers,” concludes Davidson.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Philanthropic shoe designer Edward Bogard is constantly in a state of creation.
Right now he’s working on something big.
“We’re about to kick off the tenth year of SoGiv,” Bogard said.
“We just wanted to do something we haven’t done. That’s been the core of SoGiv. Each time out it’s something different. It’s giving our supporters something different to support.”
Bogard is the founder and CEO of SoGiv, a nonprofit organization that raises awareness for worthy causes through creative footwear design.
Since its founding in 2011 the company has adopted 20 causes.
Each of which receives 100 percent of the proceeds generated through each shoe sold.
“It’s not just giving a pair of shoes to someone in need,” Bogard said.
“It’s actually directly impacting the life of someone. So, it’s not just a shoe design. It’s more than a shoe. It’s shoes with change.”
SoGiv has benefited groups like the Salvation Army and the Mid-South Food Bank, where shoe sales have provided meals for more than 13,000 families.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of SoGiv, the company plans to partner with ten different organizations.
In January, the first awareness shoe will be in partnership with Restore Corps.
Restore Corps is a local nonprofit with a mission to eradicate human trafficking.
“The reality of human trafficking that it’s happening every day,” Restore Corps Executive Director Rachel Haaga said.
“There’s months that we get referrals every day, and it takes the whole community recognizing not only does it exist, but each person should have a part to play in fighting it and stopping it.”
Inspired by the painting of local artist Amy Hutchinson, the shoe incorporates the Restore Corps logo and company colors.
Each pair costs $60 and will provide a night of respite and refuge for a trafficking survivor.
“I just want people to know this is more than a shoe,” Bogard said.
“It’s actually impacting a life.”
Shoes can be purchased on SoGiv.com and the Restore Corps website.
For organizations interested in partnering with SoGiv email Bogard at email@example.com.
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Centre Lane Partners Cinven has agreed to acquire British generic medicines business Mercury Pharma from HgCapital for £465 million, according to the FT. HgCapital had bought the company in late 2009 for £178 million. www.cinven.com
Electronic Arts (Nasdsaq: EA) has held preliminary talks with several private equity firms, including KKR and Providence Equity Partners, about an acquisition, according to the NY Post. The story says that EA would accept bids of around $20 per share, which would value the game-maker at nearly $6.4 billion ($2b more than its current market cap). www.ea.com
Excellere Partners has acquired an undisclosed stake in Flavours Inc., a Yorba Linda, Calif.–based maker of organic, natural, and healthy beverages and snack foods. www.flavoursinc.com
Republic Tobacco, the privately-held maker of Drum chewing tobacco, is receiving buyout interest from private equity firms like The Carlyle Group and Pamplona Capital Management, according to Reuters. The deal could be valued at upwards of $2 billion.
Fortress Investment Group is in advanced talks to acquire the container-leasing business of Austria’s Oesterreichische Volksbanken AG, according to Bloomberg. The deal would be valued at less than $200 million. www.volksbank.com
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I Am Selling My Pontiac G8 Gxp. I Have Owned It For Almost 3 Wonderful Years And It Has Never Had Any Issues And Is In Awesome Shape. I Took It To The Dealer 12/14 (900 Miles Ago) For Oil Change, State Inspection And General Check Up And Everything Came Back Perfect. The Car Has A Few Scratches On The Rear Bumper And Door Which I Included Pictures Of, It Has A Few Other Light Scratches That Could Be Buffed Out And Did Not Show On The Pictures And A Few Chips On The Hood.
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General Motors has confirmed to Autoblog that the Pontiac Vibe is included in Toyota's just-announced recall action. The Vibe and the Toyota Matrix share a large number of parts, including the affected cable to the airbag.
"About 40,500 Pontiac Vibes from the 2009-2010 model years are included in the Toyota recall. Toyota designed and engineered the Vibe for Pontiac. GM will service customers with these vehicles when Toyota makes the parts available," said GM recall spokesperson Alan Adler to Autoblog in an email.
The recall covers 1.3 million Toyota units in the US, including 2009-2010 Corolla, Matrix and Tacoma, the 2008-2010 Highlander, the 2006-2008 Rav4 and 2006-2010 Yaris, plus the addition of the 2009-2010 Vibe. The models all have their airbag module attached via a spiral electrical cable. The connections on this cable can be damaged when turning the steering wheel. Once broken, the airbag deactivates and the airbag warning light comes on. Toyota has an improved part, but it's still making preparations to begin repairs. It will begin notifying owners soon.
Bob Lutz sits down for Autoline Detroit - Click above to watch video after the jump
Autoline Detroit recently played host to Bob Lutz, and, as is always the case, the former General Motors vice chairman dished out some great commentary. Lutz was promoting his new book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business, and talk quickly turned to his role as it related to product development and high-level decision making at GM. While on the topic of brand management, Lutz revealed a few rather interesting tidbits about his former employer:
All Chevrolet vehicles were required to have five-spoke aluminum wheels and a chrome band up front, as part of the Bowtie brand's overall image.
When General Motors put down several of its brands in recent years, it also let loose thousands of brand-loyal customers who will eventually need another car.
R.L. Polk Associates estimates there are more than 18 million cars from 16 discontinued makes on the road today. Those "orphan owners" have sales-hungry competitors seeing dollar signs. GM is offering Saturn owners $1,000 cash toward a Chevy Cruze, Cadillac CTS or a GMC Acadia. Ford is giving its Mercury lease customers a chance to get out of their contracts with no early-termination penalty and offering to waive six remaining payments if they drive off in a Ford or Lincoln.
Edmunds.com research shows the efforts are paying off somewhat for GM, with 39 percent of Pontiac owners, 37 percent of Hummer owners and 31 percent of Saturn owners taking delivery of another GM-branded vehicle. But that leaves as much as 69 percent of owners going elsewhere. Ford, Honda and Toyota seem to be attracting many former GM owners.


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Thai rice prices at 11-month low
THAI rice prices were mired at their weakest level in 11 months this week as demand remained low, but rates for the grain from Vietnam rose slightly on hopes key buyer Philippines would soon issue an import tender, traders said on Wednesday.
Thailand’s 5 per cent broken white rice stood unchanged at US$385 a tonne, free-on-board (FOB) basis, the lowest since June 2014.
“I don’t know where else prices can go, there are no buyers,” a Thai trader based in Bangkok said, adding that prices were expected to change little for the rest of the month.
The Thai government may consider a tender at a meeting next week as it seeks to sell 10 million tonnes this year, Duangporn Rodphaya, a director at the Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday.
In Vietnam, the world’s third-largest rice exporter after India and Thailand in 2014, prices edged up due to prospects of a possible tender in the Philippines, traders said.
Vietnam’s 5-per cent broken rice rose to $360-$363 a tonne, FOB basis, from $355-$360 a tonne a week ago, and the 25 per cent broken rice rose to $340 a tonne, from $330-$335 last Wednesday.
Manila may buy between 200,000-310,000 tonnes or rice via a tender, industry sources in Thailand and the Philippines have said. The Philippines, one of the world’s top rice importers, usually buys most of its rice from Vietnam.
But increasing global rice supplies could drag on Vietnam’s rice export prices this month, the government said in a report this week, citing a projection by the Finance Ministry-run Price Control Department.
Purchases by China, Vietnam’s top rice buyer, have not picked up even though many Chinese traders have been to Vietnam in recent weeks, traders in Ho Chi Minh City said.
China has surplus rice and to curb cheap imports and cut state reserves, the government allocated 2015 import quotas only to mills which also buy from state reserves.
China’s output in the 2014/15 marketing year is expected to edge up 1.4 per cent to 144.5 million tonnes of milled rice, the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in a report for May.
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CES celebrates id, but not Sixaxis controller
The US National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences last honoured id Software and Sony in an awards ceremony held in the wake of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The organisation focussed on the innovation of the Sony PS3 Sixaxis controller (according to a statement from the platform holder), but id Software also landed two Emmy awards for "cutting-edge contributions to rendering technology" and "technological leadership."
The first award was collected by John Carmack for id's "technological leadership in rendering breakthroughs with the Quake technology." The Quake series has been at the forefront of gaming technology since it was first released in 1996. Meanwhile, another award given to Carmack honoured "cutting-edge contributions to rendering technology as the lead programmer on Doom."
So, one award for Doom and one for Quake. Quite a haul. But that isn't the end of the Emmy story, with the awarding body stating that Sony's award was not actually won for the Sixaxis controller, but rather the historical innovation of the Duel-Shock controller.
One blogger who contacted NATAS questioning the logic of the Sixaxis winning ahead of the Wiimote was told: "Sony won for their Dual Shock analog controller," apparently. "The award is from the Video Game Technology Group. It was nominated by our internal group and considered along with the Nintendo D-Pad both of which were considered Emmy worthy for the development of the generation of controllers that followed the classic joysticks."
So, despite Sony claiming victory for the Sixaxis, the award was actually for their previous controller. Relax Nintendophiles, it's all okay. Really.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360 after all
- Tomonobu Itagaki's Devil's Third gets a release date
- Adr1ft is coming to PC and consoles at the end of the summer
- EA gives the new Mirror's Edge a name – Mirror's Edge Catalyst
- ZombiU PS4 and Xbox One port reportedly in the works
- Mike Bithell's Volume to be released this August
- Gearbox's new shooter Battleborn gets a pre-E3 trailer
- Steam Controller launches in October, Steam Machines arrive in November
- Gears Of War devs Black Tusk change their name to The Coalition ahead of E3


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For the third year, the Petcasso Silent Auction will prominently feature Painted Pets—fiberglass forms transformed into one-of-a-kind works of art by talented local artists.
Beginning October 19th, the pets will be on public display in several locations and will be on the Petcasso 2018 online auction site. Attendance at Petcasso is not required to bid. The auction will close during the event on November 17th.
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Annica Henelund swings open the front door of her fabric shop as she has thousands of times before. Inside, not much has changed in the past 51 years. Piles of bright cloth line tabletops and shelves from floor to ceiling. Most of it will never be sold. In a few short weeks, the store must be empty and ready for demolition.
Residents of Kiruna have long known this moment would come. As the state-owned iron-ore mining company LKAB expands its operations underground, this Arctic town is sinking into the ground. So it’s relocating. A shiny new city center located 2 miles east was inaugurated last fall.
But Ms. Henelund, who runs the store with her sister, didn’t think it would happen like this. They can’t afford rent and other costs in the new center, so they’re closing down the shop they inherited from their mother and aunt. “Things shouldn’t have gone as bad as they did,” she says about two years of tense negotiations with the mining company. “We are so tiny for them. … But for us, it’s our lives.”
In Kiruna, it’s rare to hear complaints about the city transformation, as the process is called. The project was an urban planner’s dream – a blank slate for reinventing a city of the future. The most beloved buildings are being painstakingly transported to the new town, which aspires to be one of the most modern and livable in Sweden.
For the rest of this article: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2024/0125/Swedish-town-pays-a-price-for-its-mining-success


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U.S. home improvement retailer Lowe's Companies received approval for the purchase of the Canadian home improvement company Rona.
A new study from HomeAdvisor says the U.S. home improvement industry will be severely impacted by unprecedented skilled labor shortage.
As the year kicks into high gear, after a busy spring and a strong start to the summer construction months, remodeling studies, surveying both professionals and homeowners, suggest optimism and continued growth for the industry for the remainder of 2015.The National Association of Remodelers (NARI) released its first quarter report which indicated NARI members were in a better position over the same period the year prior, and those members also felt very optimistic about business conditions.
Remodeling spending is expected to reach record levels this year with Baby Boomers and Millennials driving the bulk of the spending, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (JCHS).
Home improvement giant Lowe’s will hire approximately 30,000 seasonal springtime employees this year.
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Houzz launched a new program offering remodeling and home improvement professionals access to a network of more than 500 professional photographers.
Angie's List, a consumer rating service for remodeling and home improvement services, announced that it has exceeded 3 million paid subscribers.


text: Americans love chocolate. Apparently, Easter Week is one of the most popular times of the year to indulge. Nearly 71 million pounds of chocolate candy are sold in the week leading up to Easter, according to a 2009 Nielsen report. Second only to Halloween, more than 20 million more pounds of chocolate are sold during Easter than Valentine’s Day. But what kinds of chocolate do Americans like the best? 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the brands that consumers buy most to identify the top 10 most popular chocolates in the country.


text: By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Video streaming service Netflix Inc said it intends to raise the monthly subscription price for new customers by $1 or $2 a month to help the company buy more movies and TV shows and improve service for its 48 million global subscribers. Investors welcomed the announcement by Netflix, which had suffered from a consumer exodus and stock plunge after it announced an unpopular price increase in July 2011. Chief Executive Reed Hastings said Netflix had improved its selection of TV shows and movies and added original series like critically acclaimed Kevin Spacey thriller House of Cards. With added revenue from higher prices, we will be able to license much more content and deliver it in very high quality video, Hastings said on a webcast. Netflix has room to raise prices, FBN Securities analyst Shebly Seyrafi said, because theyre still seeing a lot of demand for the service.


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Warpaint London, a UK cosmetics manufacturer and owner of the W7 brand, is set to acquire rival Retra Holdings after raising £21.2 million ($28.0 million) in new investment.
Retra Holdings owns the Technic, Body Collection and Man’s Stuff brands and generated revenue of £17.5 million ($23.05 million) in 2016. The firm focuses on the ‘gifting’ sector, primarily selling its products through high-street retailers and supermarket chains including Boots, Asda and Matalan.
Commenting on the deal, Warpaint joint chief executive officers Sam Bazini and Eoin Macleod said: “We are very pleased to announce the proposed acquisition of Retra. This acquisition will provide Warpaint with access to new customers and suppliers, increased numbers of product development personnel and additional exposure to the gifting market, an area of increasing focus for Warpaint”.


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Sorry Starbucks, Kloof Street doesn’t want you. And quite frankly, as per vote in an unofficial popularity contest, neither does Muizenberg.
The announcement of the new Starbucks store in Kloof Street, Cape Town was met with a whole lot of negativity; 140 comments and counting. The response is something along the lines of: ‘tsek, and finding a “yay” between the “nay” is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Starbucks launched in South Africa five years ago and after Taste holdings lost its taste for coffee and liquidated Domino’s Pizza, Rand Capital Coffee became the new licence holder of the Starbucks brand in Southern Africa in 2019. Today there are more than 25 stores in South Africa.
In an article in The Africa Report, CEO of Rand Capital Coffee, Adrian Maizey said that they are shifting focus away from malls with neighbourhoods being the next frontier. With the vision to also be at airports and petrol stations.
And here we thought Seattle Coffee Co. was our garage pie companion, and that our neighbourhoods were still a sacred place of home-grown taste.
Maizey, who was born and raised in South Africa (now based in Los Angeles), told Business Insider that “Starbucks is an iconic global brand, and when the opportunity arose to expand it into my home country…I grabbed the chance.”
Maizey. Dude. Come on. Respectfully Mister Maizey: come on. You are (were) one of us. You know the streets. You know the people. You know we like biltong and not jerky.
Starbucks — too corporate for Kloof Street?
Kloof Street is still relatively free of the big corporate disease. That’s why we love it.
We pop into Olive Branch Deli because there’s a story. We go to Coffee on Orange because the owner tells you “I don’t care if you sit here the whole day and only order one cup of coffee”. Come Covid-19 or TikTok, Arnolds is an institution. Molweni container-based coffee shop is the taste of honest we want. And we still miss seeing Myog… the new store replacement’s name might, like most things, fool you into thinking it is European, but it has New York written all over the stock-exchange.
And that’s why we love Kloof Street. That’s why Kloof Street is regarded as vibrant. It is a melting pot of hipsters and nuns, vegans and weekend bacon waffles, bergies and businesspeople, skateboarders and scholars. It is our neighbourhood. With its narrow side streets that operate as a stop-and-go, the pedestrian traffic light in the middle always testing your patience, and the slightly-off-loading-zone truck bringing the flow of traffic to a complete halt – it is our neighbourhood. And saying that “Kloof Street has a vibrant new resident on the block” is a slap in the block’s face.
Truthfully? It hurts a little bit. And it scares the caffeine out of our espresso. With McDonalds down the road (probably also an institution by now) and Starbucks and Häagen-Dazs being neighbours – how much more American will it get?
What’s next. Amazon?
Oh wait. Ja.
We are wrapped up in difficult times. The last year and a half we’ve seen the closure of many of our favourite restaurants and coffee shops, and crossing our fingers for something local is easier said than done. But it hurts.
And yes. We know. Before the we get beat over the head with a bag of coffee beans, proudly roasted in Africa – new stores, no matter what the name or chain, lead to job creations. And with unemployment at an all-time high in South Africa, we will take one caffeinated smack to the head. But our hearts are also taking a beating, we can’t help but to feel a freshly brew pot of cheated.


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Donald Trump constructed his successful presidential campaign around a promise to build a wall along Mexico’s border with the U.S., claiming the project would cost a mere $4 billion, which Mexico would pay. Some experts — many of whom remain skeptical about Mexico’s willingness to foot the bill — estimate it would cost $25 billion, not including maintenance fees.
The economic cost of such an undertaking pales in comparison to that of the symbolic wall Trump plans to place between the U.S. and the rest of the world.
In fact, American businesses and foreign workers will likely face the harshest financial consequences, not as a direct result of the erection of a wall but because of the enactment of accompanying trade and immigration policies. The technology industry is particularly likely to suffer from a Trump presidency.
IBM, for instance, has transferred much of its manufacturing out of the country in recent years. In 2013, the tech firm opened a factory in Guadalajara, Mexico, where it began manufacturing its PureFlex Systems and Power Systems servers, among others. Trump’s protectionist policies —specifically his plans to unwind the North American Free Trade Agreement — would force IBM to move manufacturing back to Rochester, NY, or else face steep tax penalties.
A document drafted this week by Trump’s transition team affirmed the stance he has taken toward international trade over the past year, stating that his administration “will reverse decades of conciliatory trade policy.” The memo details a plan to pull out of or amend NAFTA within 200 days of Trump taking office, a move that could easily spark a trade war and inflict immense damage on the American tech industry.
Renegotiating NAFTA, a task that would test Trump’s self-proclaimed superhuman deal-making abilities, could prove impossible. Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo has already declared — in no uncertain terms — that his country is not open to reopening negotiations, expressing that he would be willing to “talk so we can explain the strategic importance of NAFTA for the region.”
“Here we're not talking about...renegotiating it,” he added. “We're simply talking about dialogue.”
If talks do fall through, a withdrawal process from the 22-year- old trade deal is accounted for in its Article 2205, which allows any of the three involved countries to withdraw “six months after it provides written notice of withdrawal to the other Parties.” Trump does not plan to stop there: he has threatened to place tariffs as high as 35% on Mexican goods. Within a year of Trump taking office, American tech companies could face a new series of hurdles to engaging in transnational business.
Mexico is not the only country that Trump plans to take an aggressive trade policy towards. The president-elect has signaled that at the very start of his incumbency he will label China as a currency manipulator. Moreover, the whopping 45% tariff he has threatened to place on Chinese would likely cause Beijing to dump American assets or place its own tariff on American exports.
Companies such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard have vested interests in keeping trade barriers between the world’s two biggest economies low. Both companies manufacture in China and rely heavily on imports from here as part of their global supply chains. HP Inc., the leading foreign manufacturer of personal computers in China, is particularly concerned with the possibility of trade excises.
HP Inc. Chairwoman and HPE CEO Meg Whitman has publicly expressed the company’s opposition to Trump’s policies. “I think his policies around free trade will be damaging to businesses as a whole,” said Whitman in a CNBC interview in May. Whitman has publicly expressed the concern that if import taxes are enacted, HP will be less competitive in comparison to Chinese companies such as Lenovo and Huawei.
Another fear of tech enterprises is that Trump will follow through on the anti-immigrant rhetoric that characterized his bid for the presidency. One way he is likely to do this is by making it more difficult for highly skilled workers with backgrounds in tech to obtain immigration visas, much to the disapproval of the tech sector. And, with the help of Senator Jeff Sessions, he has already laid out a proposal that would make it costlier to hire immigrants through the H-1B visa program.
In an October rally in Ohio, Trump declared that he would protect American jobs, saying: “companies are importing low-wage workers on H-1B visas to take jobs from young college-trained Americans. We will protect these jobs for all Americans, believe me.”
Yet, Trump has delineated certain policies likely to benefit the tech industry, such as his stance on tax repatriation, an issue which most tech companies lobby heavily for in Washington. “Honestly, I believe the legislature and the administration will agree that it's in the best interest of the country and the economy to have tax reform,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook in an interview with the Washington Post.
Cook has said that Apple’s income held overseas is unlikely to come back to the country unless it is taxed at a “fair rate.” Trump has proposed lowering the rate from 35% to 10%, a decrease that could meet Cook’s demands, as well as those of other tech CEOs. When he’s not calling for his supporters to “boycott Apple,” as he did at a rally in February over an encryption controversy, Trump could prove an auspicious president for the company.
Given that Trump’s candidacy and now election have been characterized by his opaque positions on issues of great import (to which markets reacted negatively), his relationship with America’s technology sector is an interesting one, as it is here that he has the most clearly articulated (if a bit scatter-brained) policies. Trump’s policies, harmful to the line of business or otherwise, all signal a desire of his to return to a pre-globalization era, an objective antithetical to the aim of the tech industry


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Travis Scott is collaborating with Dior for the Spring-Summer 2022 collection.
Travis Scott is partnering with Dior Men and its artistic director Kim Jones for a collaborative Spring-Summer 2022 collection that is set to be revealed at one of Paris Fashion Week Men's events on June 25.
Dior describes the reveal as an "unprecedented event [representing] the first full Dior collection ever created with a musician."
Not much from the collection has been shown, but Scott was recently seen sporting a brown heavy-duty work jacket with the Dior logo plastered across the back.
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In the past, Jones has collaborated with KAWS, Kenny Scharf, Raymond Pettibon, Hajime Sorayama, and Daniel Arsham.
Similarly, Scott has had worked on numerous streetwear collaborations of his own in the past including Nike, Ksubi, BAPE, and McDonald's.
Forbes recently reported the huge earnings these collaborations netted the Astroworld rapper. Scott's deal with McDonald's earned him $5 million but was bumped to $15 million when incorporating his merch sales from the collab. His deal with Sony regarding the PS5 rewarded him with $1 million.
Earlier this week, Scott gave away 100 tickets to his Astroworld festival with a scavenger hunt for signed CACTI cans.
"Summer is back and all about going bigger," Scott said in a statement. "We really wanted to do something special with CACTI for the fans who weren’t able to get their hands on Astroworld tickets. The winners are going to get the opportunity to vibe out with us at the festival and get a full-on immersive experience. We can't wait to share this with them and everything else CACTI has planned for the rest of the year."


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MTI recently held a unique and well-attended Market Research Forum.
The forum was organised by MTI Market Research, which is a subsidiary of MTI Consulting, an international strategy consultancy with over 400 client-specific assignments across 40 countries and extensive experience in research based strategy and brand consulting and advisory.
MTI Market Research Forum was themed ‘innovating research to enable strategy’ and focused on how market research can be used and innovated towards improving key strategic functions/tasks of an organisation.
The forum featured a number of eminent corporate personalities, including Zakaria Ahmed (Marketing Director – Reckitt Benckiser Sri Lanka), Derrick Antony (Marketing Manager – Hemas Consumer), Rohantha Athukorala (Head of National Portfolio – UNPOS), Thayalan Bartlett (CEO – JWT Sri Lanka), Hilmy Cader (CEO – MTI Consulting), Muhammed Hamza (Marketing Director – Nestlé Lanka PLC), Ravi Jayawardena (CEO, Sales & Marketing – Maliban), Nushad Perera (Group Chief Marketing Officer Dialog/CEO Dialog TV), Deepal Sooriyaarchchi (Chartered Marketer), Srikanth Selladurai (Marketing Director – GlaxoSmithKline Sri Lanka) and Priyantha Talwatta (DGM Cards, Consumer Assets & Strategic Marketing – Nations Trust Bank).
Commenting on the forum, MTI Consulting CEO Hilmy Cader said: “Many organisations nowadays tend to conduct market research studies which are not aligned to their strategic business objectives, whereas it is important to understand the overall business link to market research. This was the focal point of the forum.”
MTI Market Research, which has on board an experienced panel of associates with extensive market research experience in Sri Lanka, augmented by MTI in India, offers the full range of market research solutions in both B2C and B2B domains.
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Newton, Mass.-based Alcresta has landed a new round of funding, the company announced Monday.
Alcresta, which develops enzyme-based products for adults, infants, and individuals dealing with acute conditions or chronic diseases, secured $10 million in Series B financing. The funding follows a $10 million invesetment made in the company in April 2012.
The funding was led by Alcresta’s existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Frazier Healthcare and Third Rock Ventures and will be used to advance regulatory filings, and commericalization of its planned 2014 launch of its lead product. The company’s lead program is a point-of-care enzyme-based product focused on improving the digestion of “good fats.”
Alcresta’s co-founders, Alexey Margolin and Robert Gallotto, were previously a co-founder of Alnara Pharmaceuticals. Also backed by Third Rock, Frazier and Bessemer, Alnara was acquired in 2010 by Eli Lilly for $380 million. Margolin and Gallotto are also in charge of Allena Pharmaceuticals, a separate biotech developing protein therapeutics for orphan diseases.
In addition to the funding, the company also promoted Robert Gallotto, co-founder and chief operating officer of Alcresta, to president.
“This Series B round provides Alcresta with the financial strength to complete our transition from an R&D-focused company to a commercial-stage enterprise and prepare for the launch of our proprietary line of point-of-care nutritional products. Since our launch just a little over a year ago, we have continued to make rapid progress and have achieved significant corporate milestones,” said Alexey Margolin, Alcresta’s co-founder and CEO, in a statement.
There is a $36 billion global market for adult and infant nutritional drinks, according to the company. And, the global market is expected to expand to more than $50 billion by 2016.
“Alcresta is quickly evolving from a startup company to the leader in the new space of point-of-care enzyme-based nutritional products. The company is driving innovations in nutritional science, which we believe will provide personalized solutions to individuals for improved nutrition,” said Gallotto.


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London taxi industry hits licensing milestone
London’s taxi industry is celebrating a milestone with the licensing of over 5,000 electric taxis in the capital.
Well over two-thirds of the iconic black taxi fleet are now zero-emissions compatible (ZEC). According to data from Transport for London (TfL), 5,049 ZEC taxis are currently available to the public.
In 2018, LEVC’s iconic ‘Black Cab’ was completely redesigned for the 21st century with a sleek ZEC, TX compatible model. The TX was later joined by the Nissan Dynamo.
In July 2021, data provided by TfL, there were 3,874 LEVC TX models licensed in the capital and a further 91 Nissan Dynamo models.
the Mayor’s action plan for taxis and VTCs was first published in 2016 and explained how TfL set out to establish the greenest taxi fleet in the world.
On 1 January 2018 London transport regulators introduced licensing requirements to reduce emissions from the taxi fleet by phasing out diesel taxis and increasing the number of ZEC vehicles in London. The maximum age limit of 15 remains in place for ZEC taxis, but has been controversial for much of the diesel taxi fleet.
All taxis presented for approval for the first time must now be ZEC. This means having CO2 emissions of no more than 50g/km and a minimum emission-free range of 30 miles.
First-time taxi vehicle licenses are no longer granted to diesel taxis. Petrol-engined ZEC taxis, like the LEVC, must meet the latest emissions standard (currently Euro 6).
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Hybrid sales jumped sharply in March 2014. A total of 43,790 hybrids were sold in the US in March, a whopping 43.3% increase over February, according to hybridcars.com.
Toyota boosted its market share to 61.8%, a 3.3% increase over February. The Prius Liftback remains the best selling hybrid with nearly 25% of the market, followed by the Toyota Camry Hybrid (9.8%) and the Ford Fusion Hybrid (8.9%). There were a total of 13 different hybrid models that sold more than 1,000 vehicles in March. Read more.


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Mitra Adiperkasa opened the first Zara outlet in Vietnam on Sept. 8. Photo: bazaarvietnam.vn
Indonesia’s lifestyle retailer Mitra Adiperkasa will open a Zara store in Vietnam next year and many more in the years to come as it seeks to meet demand from the swelling middle class in the neighboring country.
Through its Vietnam unit, Mitra Adiperkasa plans to open stores for other brands such as Berska and Massimo Dutti also owned by Spain-headquartered fashion group Inditex, said a representative.
The company marked its entrance into the Vietnamese market on September 8 with the opening of a 2,400-square-meter store in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s busiest metropolis. The store is also its first Zara outlet outside Indonesia, according to Nikkei Asian Review.
It now operates 15 Zara stores in Indonesia. Apart from Zara, it also franchises other international brands such as Lacoste, Starbucks, Burger King and Topman in Indonesia.
Fast-fashion brands are popular in Vietnam, and Zara has a huge customer base here. Before the opening of the first Zara store, Vietnamese customers acquire its products by ordering online and having items brought in from overseas.
Meanwhile, Mango is planning to open a men’s store in Vietnam, and H&M is said to be considering expansion in Vietnam, according to Retailnews.asia.


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Get up to 32% off Xiaomi products during the Lazada 8th birthday on 27 March 2020
Xiaomi has officially announced that in conjunction with Lazada’s 8th birthday at 27 March 2020, get up to 32% off selected Xiaomi products including the newly released Redmi Note 9S which is priced at RM699 during the flash sale. Other than that, there are also other devices for sale as well such as the Redmi Note 8 Pro at RM769, Redmi 8 at RM379 as well as the Redmi 7A at only RM299.
If you want to find out more information in regards to the sale, head over to the Xiaomi official store on Lazada. Would you be interested in getting any of the Xiaomi smartphones listed above? Let us know on our Facebook page and for more updates like this stay tuned to TechNave.com.


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Telecom and mobile money operator with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, Airtel Africa said it is expanding footprints to all unbanked Nigerians as SmartCash Payment Service Bank Limited (‘SmartCash PSB’) begins operations.
Recall that Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had in April granted approval to SmartCash, Airtel subsidiary to operate as a Payment Service Bank (‘PSB’) in Nigeria, and since May 19, operations have begun at some selected retail touchpoints.
The official launch event of SmartCash PSB was held on Thursday at Eko Hotel with several key stakeholders across the different industry sectors in attendance.
In his opening remarks during the launch event, Segun Ogunsanya, Chief Executive Officer, Airtel Africa, said SmartCash PSB is the beginning of Airtel’s journey to revolutionize the financial services landscape in the country.
According to Ogunsanya, the primary objective is to give financial services to the unbanked by reaching the millions of Nigerians in all the nooks and crannies who have been financially excluded.
He said Airtel shares the same agenda with the Nigerian Government, the CBN ,and Traditional Financial Institutions to further deepen financial inclusion in the country for the benefit of all citizens and the Nigerian economy.
According to Muyiwa Ebitanmi, Chief Executive Officer, SmartCash: Today is a remarkable day that we have been waiting for, and I am very excited that we have commenced the operations for financial services in Nigeria through SmartCash PSB.
Ebitomi said SmartCash PSB operations include receiving cash deposits, processing payments and remittances; issuing debit and prepaid cards; operating electronic wallets, and other services.
According to Ebitomi, removing the barriers and increasing accessibility to banking services, especially to those who have been left out of banking, remains imperative, a goal that SmartCash PSB intends to achieve.
Users of service are expected to download the app while the USSD code is *939#. Smartcash will serve the purpose of receiving and sending cash, among other financial transactions.
Airtel Africa offers an integrated suite of telecommunications solutions to its subscribers, including mobile voice and data services as well as mobile money services both nationally and internationally. The Group aims to continue providing a simple and intuitive customer experience through streamlined customer journeys.
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The steps are simple.
Step 1 – Dial *939# on your mobile phone
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Industry News: New England
Cheeseboy continued its Boston expansion with the opening of its 4th store, at the Prudential Center Mall. The chain plans to open more locations later this year. Boston-based Cheeseboy serves made-to-order grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup and macaroni and cheese, among other offerings. Cheeseboy is owned by Grilled Cheese to Go LLC, which has locations in Boston and Braintree, MA and Milford, CT. Teen retailer The Buckle Inc. will open its first Massachusetts store on the upper level of the at the Natick Mall mall after making its New England debut this month at Providence Place. The company, which operates 425 stores in 21 states, sells mid - to higher-priced clothing, footwear and accessories. The Merrimack (NH) Premium Outlets is under construction off Exit 10 of the F.E. Everett Turnpike. The landscape is cleared, and foundations and frames are in place for most of the seven buildings in the project’s first phase. Developers expect to finish blasting next month, and plan to complete the first phase, to include 100 retail stores, by the middle of next year. Nordstrom will open CT’s first Nordstrom Rack next spring in Farmington at the West Farm Shopping Center. The 35,000 s/f store will open in the space formerly occupied by Linens 'N Things. Nordstrom has 214 stores in 29 states, including 95 Nordstrom Rack stores, 116 Nordstrom full-line stores and a small number of affiliated stores...Arsenal Mall in Watertown welcomes Pretzel Twister, Chipotle, Reebok Factory Store, SE Asian Bistro, and Sprint to its mix of tenants. The new stores are scheduled to open this fall...FOCUS Brands, the franchisor and operator of more than 3,300 ice cream stores, bakeries, restaurants and cafes in 47 states and 42 countries, announced an aggressive plan for growth in the Boston market. Plans call for 30 Carvel and 10 Cinnabon locations over the next 2 years throughout Boston and surrounding markets...Wingstop has signed 36 development agreements that will result in 101 new store openings over the next several years. Wingstop has 485 locations open and 175 restaurants in various stages of development across the United States and Mexico.


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Travelers from 9 states will need passports for domestic flights in 2018 The deadline is.Although Black Friday has passed, you can still get your electronics on a discount with Cyber Monday deals.
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PlatinumGames’ Scalebound is probably one of the most known games that were canceled before release. Some of the game’s most unique features have been used in other games from the studio, such as Astral Chain and Bayonetta 3, but it seems we haven’t heard the last of the game yet.
Speaking during the latest episode of the XboxEra podcast, host Speshal_Nick, who correctly revealed information related to Xbox games in the past, revealed that PlatinumGames is working with Microsoft again to bring back Scalebound. This new collaboration is still very early, however, so it’s not clear if the game will be picked up from where it was left off, or if it will be a complete overhaul.
That PlatinumGames wanted to eventually work again on Scalebound isn’t a mystery, as studio head Atsushi Inaba stated back in 2020 and again last year that the studio would be open to working on the game if the opportunity presented itself again. Until recently, Xbox’s head Phil Spencer hadn’t contacted the Japanese studio, but things may have changed in the past few weeks.
PlatinumGames’ latest title, and one of those incorporating mechanics from Scalebound, is Bayonetta 3. Released on Nintendo Switch last year, it is one of the best action games released in the past few years, as highlighted by Nathan in his review.
Bayonetta 3 is the series’ best entry yet, offering an engaging universe-hopping story, bombastic cinematic moments, and refined action that’s both accessible and deeper than ever before. The game can feel slightly hemmed in on the Switch, but Platinum pummels every bit of possible performance out of the hardware. Whether you and Bayonetta have history or not, this is an engagement not to be missed.


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We might as well put on every post, Americans are flat busted!
The Federal Reserve released today the consumer credit numbers.
Consumer credit decreased at an annual rate of 5-1/4 percent in the second quarter.
Revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 8-1/4 percent, and nonrevolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 3-1/2 percent. In June, consumer credit decreased at an annual rate of 5 percent.
At least Bloomberg is finally getting it's about the jobs man:
A jobless rate near the highest in 26 years, stagnant wages and falling home values mean consumer spending, about 70 percent of the economy, will take time to recover even as the recession eases. Incomes fell the most in four years in June as one-time transfer payments from the Obama administration’s stimulus plan dried up, and unemployment is forecast to exceed 10 percent next year before retreating.
Credit card charge offs:
Credit-card defaults climbed to a record in June as more consumers fell behind on payments because of rising unemployment and bankruptcies, according to Fitch Ratings statistics released on July 31. Charge-offs, the cost of loans that card issuers have given up on collecting, rose to 10.79 percent last month, 64 percent higher than the same period last year, the Fitch Prime Credit Card Index showed.
That's an astounding number, over 10% just stop paying on their credit card balances.
Also other loans now have a 4.31% 60 days can't pay which is a slight improvement from last month, of 4.45%. But is it that great of an improvement when even getting a loan has dropped 5%?


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Network 18 | 1 August 2018
Indian farm product tariffs curbing Australian exports, says Minister
Melbourne: Australia’s exports of farm products to India have taken a hit because of new tariffs and free trade negotiations between the two countries have stalled, trade minister Steven Ciobo said on Wednesday.
"Australian farm exporters to India have been whacked with a range of new trade distortions over the past year," Ciobo told a grains industry conference in Melbourne.
"This has included higher tariffs on chickpeas, wheat and lentils, quantitative restrictions on mung beans and yellow peas and what we consider export subsidies on sugar."
Pulses imports to India, the world’s biggest buyer, may fall to their lowest in nearly two decades after the government raised import taxes and restricted overseas purchases to bolster prices, affecting the plans of its global suppliers.
Australia exported A$1.3 billion ($964 million) of agricultural goods to China in 2015/16, according to the latest figures from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The reduction in imports illustrates New Delhi’s steps to raise the prices of pulses, like peas and lentils, as it looks to reduce payouts to farmers under a food subsidy scheme.
Farmers in Canada, Australia and Russia that rely on Indian demand are expected to intensify their cutbacks in pulses cultivation, while seeking other markets.
Ciobo said Australia is keen for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement or Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement with India.
"Unfortunately, those negotiations have been stalled because our positions have been too far apart. In the interim, the government has been looking at ways beyond free trade agreements to expand our bilateral economic relationship."
Regarding the US-China trade war, Ciobo he was seeking more details from the United States about a package it has given to soybean farmers.
"I also wanted to refer to the US announcement of a new package of up to $12 billion in assistance for US farmers," he said.
"We are seeking more details from the US about the assistance package in order to assess possible impacts on Australian farmers and commodity exports."
China has imposed retaliatory tariffs on US soybeans amid an escalating trade war between the world’s biggest economies.
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DeCA has revamped its discount program to help service members and their families contend with recent high inflation.
Retailers are honoring members of the armed services in a variety of ways on and around Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Started in 1919 following the end of World War I, the national holiday recognizes veterans of the armed services and those who gave their life for their country.
The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) is both honoring its service members and providing them and their families with relief at a time of high prices. Customers can take advantage of savings on everyday items as well as supplies for their Thanksgiving meals. Earlier this year, DeCA launched a new and improved promotion, Your Everyday Savings (YES!) program, which provides deals on products that people buy the most.
Michigan-based food solutions company SpartanNash, which operates a robust military distribution business in Norfolk, Va., is offering an 11% in-store discount at its corporate-owned retail stores on Veterans Day. The savings are available to veterans and active duty military members from Nov. 11 to Nov. 13. In addition, SpartanNash is donating $15,000 to Operation Homefront to help feed military families during the holiday season.
Similarly, Tops Friendly Markets in New York will honor an 11% discount to all veterans and immediate family members in the same household on Veterans Day. “The respect and gratitude we have for the people who serve and have served in the military is immeasurable, and for that we are forever grateful,” remarked John Persons, Tops’ president. “We wanted to support local military personnel by giving back to our associates and customers who have courageously defended our country and made many sacrifices through their military service.”
In addition to the many grocers that are offering discounts, food retailers are offering their gratitude in other ways. Chicago-based Dom’s Kitchen & Market, for example, is offering a complimentary meal from its kitchen to all veterans and active military members on Veterans Day between 11 a.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Iowa-based Hy-Vee, Inc. launched its monthly Hy-Vee Homefront initiative earlier this month and, as part of that, will be offering a free dine-in breakfast to veterans on Nov. 11. The program also includes a register campaign benefiting the nations’ veterans and active-duty military members and raising awareness of support for organizations that provide assistance. Hy-Vee is matching customer donations up to $100,000 and CPG partner Coca-Cola is additionally matching up to $50,000 with all proceeds going to Hope for the Warriors, Operation First Response,American Red Cross and the Puppy Jake Foundation.
H-E-B is another retailer that makes an extra effort to recognize veterans. The Texas grocer reported that it planned more than 250 appreciation events across the state on Veterans Day. Through its Homes Built for Heroes program, H-E-B has helped provide nearly 40 mortgage-free houses to severely wounded military veterans and their families. The retailer is also extending its Operation Appreciation donation campaign through Dec. 6.
Food retailers are also marking the occasion to recognize their own team members who have served in the U.S. armed forces. New York-based Wegmans Food Markets, for example, spotlighted several veteran associates on its website, and noted that it is proud to employ hundreds of current and former service members.


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BrightRoll Introduces Industry’s Most Advanced Programmatic Buying Console for Digital Video Advertising
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Ubisoft has first revealed its new mobile game, Elite Squad, back at E3 2019. And in Ubisoft Forward event, we had some more information about it. And now we have more information about the game. Tom Clancy's Elite Squad release date revealed. The new mobile game will be released on August 27th.
Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Elite Squad is a new free-to-play action RPG. The game will include favourite Clancy characters into a single release. According to some reports, the game will play like a strategic military RPG based around popular Ubisoft titles like Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six.
In Elite Squad's official web page, it says: “Tom Clancy's Elite Squad is a real-time battle role-playing game. In the game, players will assemble and upgrade the most iconic heroes and villains to lead them in stunning real-time 5vs5 shooting battles. Many fan-favourite characters from the Tom Clancy’s video game universe will be available in the game to give you the opportunity to assemble the finest squad ever made.”
Tom Clancy's Elite Squad Release Date
The game will also include a campaign mode. The campaign mode will introduce a brand-new storyline. Players will try to save the world against a new threat. There will be multiple chapters in the campaign mode. With a variety of unlockable soldiers and unique narrative scenes. In the new mobile game, players will also have the chance to challenge other squads in the arena. You can pre-register at the official website to receive an exclusive item for the game, Montagne’s Tier 2 Weapon, an M1911 pistol.
The game will be available for IOS and Android on 27 August 2020. You can check out the trailer for Ubisoft's new mobile game below. Stay tuned, enjoy.


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Crate Entertainment has announced that its first title, Grim Dawn, has recently passed the half-million mark in sales on PC. Grim Dawn was developed by the same people that were behind Titan Quest and after an extensive Early Access period, the game was fully released four months ago.
As the press release reads, more than two years after its initial debut on Steam Early Access and now four months after its full release, Grim Dawn remains one of the top 100 games by sales on Steam; with a 93% user rating and a Metacritic meta-score of 83%.
With no outside investors or publishers, the financial success of Grim Dawn will remain with the studio and fund future projects. The team is currently working on “Crucible,” a new game mode for Grim Dawn, along with a full expansion and a yet unannounced new project.